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DOGWOOD FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia
Synonyms:
Cornaceae; dogwood family; family Cornaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dogwood family" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "dogwood family"):
Aucuba; genus Aucuba (hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan)
Cornus; genus Cornus (a rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemisphere)
Corokia; genus Corokia (evergreen shrubs with intricately twisted wiry stems that in summer are smothered in small yellow flowers; grows in New Zealand)
Curtisia; genus Curtisia (a large evergreen tree of South Africa)
genus Griselinia; Griselinia (evergreen shrubs of New Zealand and South America)
genus Helwingia; Helwingia (deciduous dioecious shrubs native to woodland thickets in low mountains in Japan)
Holonyms ("dogwood family" is a member of...):
order Umbellales; Umbellales (plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs))
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